ABC Home | Radio | TV | News | Local | Environment | More Subjects… | Shop

ABC News

Tag: Crime

Police look for bank robber

March 12, 2010 18:47:00

Police are hunting for a man who robbed a bank in Perth.[MORE]

Tags: crime, perth-6000

Surfers Paradise nightclub wins 'touting' court case

March 12, 2010 18:13:00

The Court of Appeal in Brisbane has ruled in favour of a Gold Coast night club in case over what is or is not "touting" for the adult entertainment business.[MORE]

Tags: law-crime-and-justice, crime, courts-and-trials, sexual-offences, australia, qld, southport-4215, surfers-paradise-4217

Man who murdered parents sentenced to life

March 12, 2010 17:00:00

A central Queensland man has been jailed for life for the shooting murder of his father and stepmother. [MORE]

Tags: law-crime-and-justice, crime, courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, australia, qld, rockhampton-4700

Hurley offers 'sympathy' to Doomadgee family

March 12, 2010 15:38:00

The policeman acquitted of a 2004 death-in-custody on Palm Island in north Queensland has, for the first time, offered his sympathy to the victim's family.[MORE]

Tags: community-and-society, indigenous, black-deaths-in-custody, law-crime-and-justice, crime, courts-and-trials, australia, qld, palm-island-4815, townsville-4810

$100k truck stolen from Cataby

March 12, 2010 14:41:00

A truck worth $100,000 has been stolen from a transport company in the Mid West.[MORE]

Tags: crime, wa, moora-6510

Council brothel inspector jailed over bribes

March 12, 2010 14:14:00

A western Sydney council brothel inspector has been jailed for at least 15 months for corruption.[MORE]

Tags: community-and-society, prostitution, government-and-politics, local-government, law-crime-and-justice, crime, courts-and-trials, fraud-and-corporate-crime, australia, nsw, parramatta-2150

33yo 'assaulted man after breaking in'

March 12, 2010 14:06:00

Geraldton detectives have charged a Beresford man over the violent assault of a 23-year-old man.[MORE]

Tags: law-crime-and-justice, crime, assault, wa, geraldton-6530

Man charged with attempted murder

March 12, 2010 13:30:00

A 43 year old man has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly shooting a 53 year old man in Northam overnight.[MORE]

Tags: law-crime-and-justice, crime, assault, wa, northam-6401

Police uncover alleged backyard drug lab

March 12, 2010 13:07:00

Coffs Harbour police have intercepted what they believe is a hidden drug lab.[MORE]

Tags: law-crime-and-justice, crime, drug-offences, coffs-harbour-2450, toormina-2452

Police officer grilled for second day

March 12, 2010 13:01:00

The police officer at the centre of a death in custody at Palm Island in north Queensland has denied applying force to the prisoner during a scuffle.[MORE]

Tags: community-and-society, indigenous, black-deaths-in-custody, law-crime-and-justice, crime, courts-and-trials, police, australia, qld, palm-island-4815, townsville-4810

Man hurt in hills shooting

March 12, 2010 12:58:00

A man in his 20s has been shot at a house at Mount Barker in the Adelaide hills.[MORE]

Tags: emergency-incidents, crime, sa, adelaide-5000, mount-barker-5251

Man accused of torturing teen

March 12, 2010 12:00:00

A man from Romsey, in central Victoria, has been remanded in custody over charges relating to the alleged torture of a 15-year-old girl. [MORE]

Tags: law-crime-and-justice, crime, courts-and-trials, assault, bendigo-3550, romsey-3434

Drug trafficking mum avoids jail

March 12, 2010 12:00:00

A Victorian mother of two convicted of drug trafficking has escaped a jail term.[MORE]

Tags: law-crime-and-justice, crime, courts-and-trials, drug-offences, bendigo-3550

Burglar on run in north Qld

March 12, 2010 11:33:00

Police are searching for a man who escaped from a low security prison in Townsville this morning.[MORE]

Tags: law-crime-and-justice, crime, police, australia, qld, townsville-4810

Teenager charged over Erindale stabbing

March 12, 2010 10:49:00

A 15-year-old boy has been charged over an alleged stabbing outside Canberra's Erindale College. [MORE]

Tags: crime, act, wanniassa-2903

Bank heist triggers man-hunt

March 12, 2010 10:46:00

Gippsland police are still searching for a man who held up a bank at gunpoint at Mirboo North yesterday.[MORE]

Tags: law-crime-and-justice, crime, armed-robbery, mirboo-north-3871, morwell-3840

Stolen phone bill tops $120,000

March 12, 2010 10:23:00

A Tasmanian teenager has been accused of clocking up an internet bill of $120,000 on a stolen government mobile phone. [MORE]

Tags: crime, fraud-and-corporate-crime, tas, hobart-7000, launceston-7250

Eight banned over alcohol-related violence

March 12, 2010 08:23:00

Eight people in the Bendigo area have been banned from all licensed venues for up to two years. [MORE]

Tags: health, law-crime-and-justice, crime, alcohol, vic, bendigo-3550

Inquest told of Palm Island 'scuffle'

March 12, 2010 08:01:00

The coronial inquest into the death in custody of a Palm Island man will continue hearing evidence today from the police officer acquitted of his manslaughter.[MORE]

Tags: community-and-society, indigenous, black-deaths-in-custody, law-crime-and-justice, crime, courts-and-trials, police, australia, qld, palm-island-4815, townsville-4810

Baby left in car while dad went shoplifting

March 12, 2010 08:00:00

A man will face court next month accused of leaving his 13-month-old son in his car while he shoplifted in Sydney's east.[MORE]

Tags: law-crime-and-justice, crime, australia, nsw, pagewood-2035

Man jailed for secretly filming naked wife

March 12, 2010 07:06:00

An appeals court in the US state of Minnesota has upheld a one-year prison sentence for a man who drilled a hole in his bathroom wall and filmed his wife naked without her consent.[MORE]

Tags: law-crime-and-justice, crime, courts-and-trials, united-states

Court slams abalone poacher

March 12, 2010 06:00:00

New South Wales Fisheries has welcomed the two-month jail sentence handed down to a man for abalone poaching on the New South Wales far south coast.[MORE]

Tags: crime, prisons-and-punishment, fishing-aquaculture, batemans-bay-2536, narooma-2546

Venables case sparks fresh debate on child killers

Feature

March 11, 2010 18:37:00

The British government is locked in a battle with the media for refusing to say why a notorious child killer has been sent back to jail, amid warnings he faces a lynch mob if his identity is revealed.[MORE]

Tags: law-crime-and-justice, crime, prisons-and-punishment, rights, human-rights, murder-and-manslaughter, united-kingdom, england

Policeman 'never heard Doomadgee's cries for help'

March 11, 2010 18:22:00

The police officer acquitted of the 2004 manslaughter of a Palm Island man in police custody says he never heard the prisoner's cries for help.[MORE]

Tags: law-crime-and-justice, crime, courts-and-trials, police, australia, qld, palm-island-4815, townsville-4810

Rockhampton murder trial jury considers its verdict

March 11, 2010 17:15:00

A Supreme Court jury has retired to consider its verdict in a murder trial at Rockhampton in central Queensland.[MORE]

Tags: law-crime-and-justice, crime, courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, australia, qld, rockhampton-4700